Retain znodes for all regions in UNASSIGNED (zookeeper)
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                 Key: HBASE-4774
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4774
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Brainstorming
          Components: master
            Reporter: Karthik Ranganathan


We delete znodes from UNASSIGNED once a region is opened and the open is 
entered into META.

A lot of multiple assignment issues arise from the fact that we delete this 
znode and dont have state information after the region is opened. So one 
proposal is to always retain the znodes in META and never delete the regions 
from UNASSIGNED. That way we can have a simple, deterministic state machine for 
each region. We could bucket the regions into sub-directories using a 
deterministic hash or the region prefixes. 

Note that what we put in zk is not permanent state but just the state of the 
cluster that is running. This state is invalid upon cluster restart - so we are 
still storing temporary data in zk.

Thoughts?

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